The Frackers

The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters

"In five years, the United States has seen a historic burst of oil and natural gas production, easing our insatiable hunger for energy. A new drilling process called fracking has made us the world's fastest growing energy power, on track to pass Saudi Arabia by 2020. But despite headlines and controversy, no previous book has shown how the revolution really happened. The Frackers tells the dramatic tale of how a group of ambitious and headstrong wildcatters ignored the ridicule of experts and derision of colleagues to pursue massive, long-overlooked deposits. Against all odds, they changed the world--and made astonishing fortunes in the process. Zuckerman's exclusive access enabled him to get close to men like George Mitchell, who developed a new way to drill for gas in shale rock; Harold Hamm, who discovered so much oil he's now worth more than the estate of Steve Jobs; and Aubrey McClendon, who lost more than $2 billion on a misguided gambit. Zuckerman shows how the frackers are now using their wealth to shake up Hollywood, education, politics, sports, and other fields, much like the Rockefellers and Gettys before them"--

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Considering the recent ...demise... of Aubrey McClendon... and the swarms of 3.0 + earth quakes in Oklahoma ( http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-17/boom-times-for-fracking-s-toxic-wastewater-come-to-a-shaky-end). This book seems more like hero worship than it does anything else. The author is all but dismissive of anything skeptical about the fracking process.